I’ve always hoped to use Hive to get people interested in my fiction and my music but I’ve consistently done better sharing my blogs and vlogs. I go on YouTube and find some random people talking about their day and their thoughts and these videos also have a lot of views and comments. It’s just a random somebody most of the time, nobody with particularly interesting lives.
What makes us so interested?
As much as I am interest in fiction and artwork from others, I also find myself more drawn to casual musings and updates about what people are busy with.
What is it?
I know 1000 people with lives probably just as interesting, some of them more so, and I could easily message them and ask what they are up to, and yet, I still feel pulled to hear what random people are up to and what they are thinking about. Sometimes the more random they are, the better.
Sometimes the unfamiliarity is what makes me curious. “Where are they going with this?”
Sometimes the consistency is what draws me in. I know where they stand with regards to things, let me see if I can guess where they are going with this...
Or does someone standing in their particular position see something I don’t see.
Sometimes it’s just a genuine like for that person and what they bring into the world.
But then why aren’t all the blogs/vlogs I follow the most the people that I like the most.
Perhaps it’s the fact that these people interact with the world in an entirely outward fashion. When they make a video or a blog, or podcast, of course I can comment, but they’ve already said something they can’t take back.
Perhaps the unfolding of a persons outward energy is what we find so compelling. It’s a bit masculine, or yang, in nature. They pierce our subconsciousness with their thoughts and their presentation. We become feminine or Yin when we accept it. As proactive interaction with others forces us to be a bit Yang, we relish in being the Yin to receive another’s Yang.
As content creators, we may also find excitement in sharpening or presenting our Yang on its own, without the back and forth of conversation. I think that’s what attracts me to sharing myself with the world.
We like the energy that others offer the world, and that energy sometimes is much more effective in the pure experience of “being” rather than the “doing” of making some kind of art work or other.
I’m not saying that artwork will become irrelevant, but it is a much more intimate experience that will be attractive only to those who trust the energy we are offering, or who see our art looking sexy on a shelf somewhere and want to enjoy a one night stand or a friends with benefits where they know little about where we are coming from and what we are getting at, but like the feeling they get.
Everything is sexual. But sexual doesn’t necessarily mean SEX or physical desire. It’s the giving and receiving of the yin and Yang.
My favorite relationships are the ones where we give and receive equal amounts, but I also love all the people share something wonderful for me to just receive, and those who receive what I have to give passively. I hope there are those who are inspired by me and the inspiration allows them to create or do something themselves that can inspire others. In the same way, I love that there are those who create and share shamelessly so that I can receive and find the inspirations to pass along to others.
You feel me?